Chapter 3268: Air Guard of the White Elephant Kingdom

Early warning aircraft? Hearing what the Prime Minister said, Sandra looked at Atta and looked at each other. At this time, she did not know how to answer the Prime Minister's words.

Say no? Can't do anything after spending so much money? Say yes? What if something goes wrong?

Bai Xiangguo wanted to study everything by itself, and naturally the same was true for early warning aircraft.

In the 1970s, the Baixiang country rented the Tu-126 early warning aircraft from Xiong’s country. At that time, it already experienced the benefits of the early warning aircraft. In the 1980s, as the Han country continued to achieve breakthroughs in early warning aircraft technology, with the opposite holy country Plans to purchase early warning aircraft, the early warning aircraft project of the White Elephant Country, will follow suit.

Of course, this is also because they cannot buy out. The traditional sources of weapons in the White Elephant Country are the Bear Country and the Chicken Country. Unfortunately, these two countries are not good at building early warning aircraft. The Bear Country has it, but the electronic system is backward. Without the energy to do it, in the case of Baixiang at home and abroad, the only choice is to develop it by itself.

They did it not too late. They had this plan as early as 1985. At that time, the Air Force and the Navy jointly promoted the "Air Surveillance Platform" (ASP) project, code-named "Guardian" and later renamed "Air Guardian." ".

The ambitious officials of the White Elephant State hope that this early warning aircraft can reach the world's advanced level, with remote surveillance capabilities, can conduct air command, all kinds of data are tall, and comprehensively suppress the Han domestic early warning aircraft, and at the same time can guide the White Elephant State Air Force The MiG-29, "Phantom"-2000 and other fighters engaged in confrontation.

If you want to build an early warning aircraft, you must first have an aircraft platform. Han State uses its own Yunshi passenger plane as the platform, while Baixiang State also has to use its own. So I searched and searched at home and chose the HS-748 transport plane.

This is Niu Country’s 20-ton transport aircraft, and Bai Xiang Country has produced 89 aircraft through the import license. Compared with the platforms of AWACS in other countries in the world, it uses a propeller engine with a power of only 1700 horsepower. Looking at various data, you can know how tasteless it is. A 20-ton aircraft can be used as an AWACS platform. ?

Han's Yunshi has a take-off weight of hundreds of tons. A 20-ton aircraft has an empty weight of 13 tons. With five tons of fuel, it has only two tons of payload and can be used as an early warning aircraft. To use?

At best, it's on the same level as E-2 Hawkeye.

You can compare it with Han's medium-sized early warning aircraft. Choose the Yun-8 aircraft platform, which is also an aircraft with a take-off weight of 60 tons. Now, an early warning aircraft is required for a 20-ton aircraft. This is a bit of a joke.

However, no matter what, it was always their choice. The pao they had agreed upon must be beaten even with tears in their tears, and they began to transform this body.

First of all, it is natural to install a rotating radome above the back of the aircraft, which is also the normal layout of all early warning aircraft.

After several years of research and development, the shell of this early warning aircraft was developed. At this time, another feat appeared.

The HS-748 early warning aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of only about 21 tons actually has a super large radome. The diameter of this thing reaches 7.32 meters and the thickness reaches 1.54 meters.

Originally, a small mini early warning aircraft just carried a large plate, even if it was the Air Police 500 modified with the Yunba as the platform, the take-off weight of 60 tons, the large plate of the early warning aircraft was only eight meters. The courage shown by the people of the Baixiang people in this respect is admirable. If the plane does not fall, then I am very sorry for the aerodynamics.

Over the past few years, just installing this radome and conducting test flights have exhausted their efforts. It was not until last year that the relevant departments of Baixiang Country finally processed an airborne early warning radar, using a flat-slit radar antenna, according to the design index, The average power is 3.3 kilowatts, the detection distance is 300 kilometers, and 50 different targets are tracked at the same time.

That’s right, this is the indicator data after lowering it several times. However, even this indicator is currently difficult to complete. Those radars have just been installed, and various faults continue to appear. Now, they have just started. It is estimated that it will take more than ten years to eliminate the fault. As for the funding, it has exceeded the budget by a dozen times.

Such a tattered item is still regarded as a treasure by the Prime Minister. Now it is a dead order to participate in this early warning aircraft. Facing the Prime Minister’s request, of course everyone can’t say that it is not capable. Anyway, after going up to heaven, turn around again. Next, let's talk about whether the target can be found.

With this thought, Sandra nodded: "Yes, we will definitely use the early warning aircraft."

"Publish this news." Rao said: "Let the world know that our Baixiang country is powerful. It is definitely not the slander in this newspaper."

Rao was suffocating his anger, and when the order was passed to the personnel responsible for the development of the early warning aircraft, they were all embarrassed at this time.

"What? To perform the task? Hello, we haven't even completed the clutter filtering of the pulse Doppler system yet." Chief Engineer Cheri in charge said.

"Yes, in the last few flights, we found that the radome fixing bolts were a little loose, and we couldn't find the reason. A static test might be needed," another person said.

With the huge radome and the electronic antenna inside, after flying up, I always feel that the radome is shaking, shaking constantly, every time I get down, I will find signs of loosening of the fixing bolts.

So, now they dare not to rotate the antenna. They still have a lot of work to do. Now, let them perform the task? This is simply dreaming.

"This is what the Prime Minister meant." The person who delivered the order was also helpless: "After all, we are under a lot of pressure recently. We must show our technical strength, early warning aircraft, and we must participate."

After speaking, his voice lowered: "Of course, you have the final say how to participate. The Air Force will not ask you for any data."

Having said that, I already understand it very well. You guys pretend to be from heaven, otherwise, how can you explain to the Prime Minister?

However, even if this is the case, Cheri can't be relieved, but we have to fly far! With such a long distance, who can guarantee that nothing will happen in the middle?

They are all in the dark, but no one cares about them. If you use a well-known phrase, this is a political task, and there is absolutely no room for negotiation.

The country has invested 2 billion in this project. Now that you are required to build up its momentum, do you still dare to shirk?